21 Disgusting Eating Habits We Got Away With As Teenagers

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If given the chance, few people would choose to return to their teenage years. Being a teenager is really tough -- you're insecure, your body is changing, you have ungodly amounts of homework and way too much TV to watch. And your parents just don't understand.

Fortunately, the one saving grace about being a teenager is that your metabolism allows you to eat pretty much whatever you want, whenever you want. You could scarf down entire bags of chips before going to sports practice, and stuff yourself with pizza before going home to eat dinner.

Only teenagers can make daily trips to the vending machine and shove down a bag of M&Ms and a Twix and a bag of pretzels and still be okay. It's all so bad it's so, so good -- so good in fact that it may be enough to convince us re-doing our teenage years isn't such a bad idea after all.

Here are 21 food times you knew you were a teenager.

1This was breakfast.

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If you are still eating Pop Tarts after you turn 18, you need to reevaluate your life.

2You took daily trips to the vending machine.

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And you always got more than one thing.

3You ate Bagel Bites. A lot.

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You ate them any time.

4You ate entire jars of Tostitos cheese dip.

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You did this almost every day.

5You ate a massive after-school snack right before dinner.

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Because you were starving when you got home from school, and you knew you'd be just as starving by dinner time.

6These were in your weekly rotation.

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Hot Pockets were a perfectly acceptable after-school snack or late night treat. (In case you're wondering, they're unacceptable for anyone who refers to himself as an adult.)

7You drank entire liters of Mountain Dew.

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The Mountain Dew was for washing down your large bag of sour cream and onion potato chips while watching The X Files.

8You drank Slurpees.

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And you drank them almost every day.

9You ate this.

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Cheese from a can. Cheese. From. A. Can.

10You ate Flamin' Hot Cheetos while driving in your car.

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And you turned the steering wheel orange.

11It was all about Gatorade and Powerade.

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Is it in you?

12You ate Pizza Rolls.

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In fact, you ate so many pizza-flavored snacks. Fortunately one of the great parts of adulthood is moving away from the pizza snacks and actually enjoying the wonders of REAL pizza.

13You ate cookie dough from the tube while watching TV.

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You didn't just take a few bites when you were making cookies. Baking was never part of the equation.

14You never got sick of trying to get through a whole jawbreaker.

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Miraculously, you just kept trying.

15You ate Dunkaroos.

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Need we say more?

16You drank so much Capri Sun.

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You had no idea what a "green juice" was, and even if you did, it didn't matter. You had Capri Suns.

17Cheez Whiz. Just Cheez Whiz.

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Oh boy.

18Lunch was just a plate of French fries.

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And only French fries.

19This was your post-work out snack.

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Because why wouldn't you have a coke and chocolate chip cookies after a run?